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New comment by collyw in "Do turmeric and curcumin have any actual health benefits?"

collyw — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:39:02 +0000

Probably a bit over a week. Twinged after kayaking at the weekend. Got worse the following weekend and wasn't going away.

New comment by collyw in "Do turmeric and curcumin have any actual health benefits?"

collyw — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:36:59 +0000

I did, it says it sometimes involves inflammation, but it was self diagnosed anyway.Either way I drank turmeric milkshakes and it went away. Maybe by itself, maybe because of the turmeric.

New comment by collyw in "Do turmeric and curcumin have any actual health benefits?"

collyw — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:34:51 +0000

Maybe.

New comment by collyw in "European Parliament ditches Google for French search firm over privacy concerns"

collyw — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:40:58 +0000

"Privacy concerns", i.e it returns results that they don't want you seeing.

New comment by collyw in "The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI"

collyw — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:39:38 +0000

Are the models really getting better and better? They tell us they are but I haven't noticed much difference in the last year or two.

New comment by collyw in "What's gonna happen to software engineers?"

collyw — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:24:35 +0000

It's closed source, how would you know?

New comment by collyw in "A 10 year old Xeon is all you need"

collyw — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:09:07 +0000

Yet they managed to get a fake disease into them.

New comment by collyw in "Do turmeric and curcumin have any actual health benefits?"

collyw — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:06:17 +0000

I has tennis elbow a while ago. Was going to see the doctor but there was a wait. Looked up natural antiinflamatories. Turmeric came up. Did turmeric and black pepper milkshakes for a week and it fixed it.

New comment by collyw in "Ask HN: Why hasn't someone built a decentralized compute network?"

collyw — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:26:07 +0000

Look up grid computing. It never really took off.

New comment by collyw in "When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?"

collyw — Sun, 03 May 2026 09:30:06 +0000

"But if not, then it raises the question of why do we even have this "extra" consciousness"

Keep chipping away Dawkins, you might arrive at God eventually.

New comment by collyw in "When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?"

collyw — Sun, 03 May 2026 09:25:34 +0000

Try being rude to them, they will usually respond back politely.

New comment by collyw in "When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?"

collyw — Sun, 03 May 2026 09:24:43 +0000

Someone that has recently dies has pretty much the same biology as when they were alive. The conciseness is the main difference, I would say.

New comment by collyw in "When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?"

collyw — Sun, 03 May 2026 09:21:37 +0000

Indeed, doing a first aid course we were pointed out that sleeping is different from being unconscious. You can wake someone from sleep pretty quickly. You can't bring an unconscious person back in the same way.

New comment by collyw in "When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?"

collyw — Sun, 03 May 2026 09:19:41 +0000

It's literally the only thing you can be certain of, your own conciseness.

New comment by collyw in "Benn Jordan’s flock camera jammer will send you to jail in Florida now [video]"

collyw — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 16:45:59 +0000

I have seen youtube videos saying that if you put some tape over your licence plates the cameras won't read them. I think it was tape to make a skateboard grip better.

New comment by collyw in "The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025"

collyw — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 08:36:54 +0000

How do I vote Ursula out?

New comment by collyw in "The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025"

collyw — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 08:35:02 +0000

The AfD would support it? They seem like one of the more freedom focused parties in Germany.

New comment by collyw in "The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025"

collyw — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 08:30:06 +0000

Incredible how many politicians whatsapp messages disappeared after the so called pandemic.

New comment by collyw in "The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025"

collyw — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 08:29:01 +0000

They don't seem at all bothered about it in the UK, they try to cover it up.

New comment by collyw in "Ageing accelerates around age 50 ― some organs faster than others"

collyw — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 13:03:47 +0000

Do you keep physically active? I am a couple of years older. The main thing I notice is that I want more sleep and have trouble getting it.And the grey hair.